Quoth Jameson Graef Rollins on Feb 18 at 4:40 pm: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:39:04 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote: > > Finally, I've been working on adding support for a decent date range > > search. It still needs some polish and tests, but seeing the demand, > > perhaps I should just post the patches and see what happens. > > A while back Austin also worked on a custom query parser [0] that > supported more natural language date specification. He has threatened > to resurrect that patch set as well. > > jamie. > > [0] id:"1293084024-7893-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu" Really you want v2, id:"1295165458-9573-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu" Ideally we would use a combination of my query parser and Jani's date parser. The date parser I included with my query parser was just a simple demonstration whereas Jani's parser (I hear) is much more complete but has some peculiarities that stem from Xapian's query parser (like not being able to use spaces in dates).